301.046 Community residential confinement.
301.047 Inmate rehabilitation and aftercare.
301.048 Intensive sanctions program.
301.049 Mother-young child care program.
301.05 Gifts; trustee duty.
301.055 Prisoner population limits.
301.06 Education and prevention.
301.065 Religious organizations; contract powers.
301.068 Community services to reduce recidivism.
301.07 Cooperation and contracts with federal government.
301.073 American Indian tribal community reintegration program.
301.075 Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures.
301.08 Purchase of care and services.
301.085 Payment of benefits.
301.09 Grants for pilot programs or demonstration projects.
301.095 Council on offender reentry.
301.10 Purchases, bills, audits, payments.
301.103 Prescription drug formulary.
301.105 Telephone company commissions.
301.11 Reports of corrections institutions.
301.12 Cost of care and maintenance, liability; collection and deportation counsel; collections; court actions; recovery.
301.13 Minimum security correctional institutions.
301.132 Honesty testing of sex offenders.
301.135 Electronic monitoring.
301.14 State-local shared correctional facilities.
301.15 Medium security prison.
301.16 Construction or establishment of certain institutions.
301.17 Minimum security corrections institutions.
301.18 Correctional and other institutions; expansion and establishment of facilities.
301.19 Restrictions on construction or modifications of correctional facilities.
301.205 Reimbursement to visiting families.
301.21 Contracts for the transfer and confinement of Wisconsin prisoners in other states.
301.235 Structures, facilities and permanent improvements.
301.24 Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases.
301.25 Sewer system at Taycheedah Correctional Institution.
301.26 Juvenile correctional services; state services.
301.27 Meal and other charges; vending stands; commissary; and butter and cheese.
301.28 Training of correctional officers.
301.285 In-service and work experience training.
301.286 State identification upon release from prison.
301.287 Correctional officer overtime.
301.29 Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.
301.30 Inmate wages, allowances and release payments.
301.31 Wages to prisoners.
301.315 Corrections programs report.
301.32 Property of prisoners, residents and probationers.
301.323 Vendors of personal property items.
301.325 Prisoner reimbursement to the state.
301.328 Judgment for litigation loans to prisoners.
301.33 Freedom of worship; religious ministration.
301.335 Treatment records.
301.35 Law enforcement officer access to department records.
301.36 General supervision and inspection by department.
301.37 County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.
301.373 Operating loss reimbursement program.
301.38 Notification of victims and witnesses about prisoner escapes.
301.45 Sex offender registration.
301.46 Access to information concerning sex offenders.
301.47 Sex offender name changes prohibited.
301.475 Sex offenders to notify schools.
301.48 Global positioning system tracking and residency requirement for certain sex offenders.
301.49 Global positioning system tracking for persons who violate certain orders or injunctions.
301.50 Notification of intent to chaperone sex offenders.
301.001
301.001
Purposes of chapters. The purposes of this chapter and chs.
302 to
304 are to prevent delinquency and crime by an attack on their causes; to provide a just, humane and efficient program of rehabilitation of offenders; and to coordinate and integrate corrections programs with other social services. In creating the department of corrections, chs.
301 to
304, the legislature intends that the state continue to avoid sole reliance on incarceration of offenders and continue to develop, support and maintain professional community programs and placements.
301.001 History
History: 1989 a. 31,
107;
1995 a. 27.
301.001 Annotation
The Department of Corrections must follow its own rules. It is not harmless error for an agency to disobey its own procedural regulations. State ex rel. Anderson-El v. Cooke,
2000 WI 40,
234 Wis. 2d 626,
610 N.W.2d 821,
98-0715.
301.01
301.01
Definitions. In this chapter and chs.
302 to
304:
301.01(1)
(1) “Department" means the department of corrections.
301.01(2)
(2) “Prisoner" means any person who is either arrested, incarcerated, imprisoned, or otherwise detained in excess of 12 hours by any law enforcement agency of this state, except when detention is pursuant to s.
55.06 (11) (a), 2003 stats., or s.
51.15,
51.20,
51.45 (11) (b), or
55.135 or ch.
980. “Prisoner" does not include any of the following:
301.01(2)(b)
(b) Any resident of a juvenile correctional facility or a secured residential care center for children and youth.
301.01(2)(d)
(d) Any child participating in the mother-young child care program under s.
301.049.
301.01(3)
(3) “Secretary" means the secretary of corrections.
301.01(3k)
(3k) “Secured residential care center for children and youth" has the meaning given in s.
938.02 (15g).
301.01(4)
(4) “State correctional institution" means a state prison under s.
302.01 or a juvenile correctional facility operated by the department.
301.01(5)
(5) “Type 1 prison" means a state prison under s.
302.01, but excludes any institution that meets the criteria under s.
302.01 solely because of its status under s.
301.048 (4) (b).
301.02
301.02
Institutions governed. The department shall maintain and govern the state correctional institutions.
301.02 History
History: 1989 a. 31.
301.02 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also ch.
DOC 310, Wis. adm. code.
301.025
301.025
Division of juvenile corrections. The division of juvenile corrections shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of the department that relate to juvenile correctional services and institutions, juvenile offender review, community supervision under s.
938.533, and the serious juvenile offender program under s.
938.538.
301.025 History
History: 1995 a. 27,
77;
2003 a. 33;
2015 a. 55.
